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How Web of Knowledge Can Help Kyrgyzstan
Research, It’s Visibility and Influence
David Horky & Metin Tunc
Agenda
• Thomson Reuters
• Effective Research Evaluation
• Editorial Policy and Content
• Web of Science
• Journal Citation Reports with Impact Factors
• Few Examples From Kyrgyzstan
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Thomson Reuters
• 17th April, 2008: The Thomson Corporation and Reuters
Group PLC combine to form Thomson Reuters
• Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of
intelligent information for businesses and professionals
• More than 50,000 employees
• Offices in 93 countries worldwide
• www.thomsonreuters.com
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How is Research Evaluation done?
• Combination of various methodologies and approaches,
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Overall number of received grants
Number of awards (e.g. Nobel Price)
Peer-review
Publication activity
Citation count
• Peer review – expensive, results are subjective
• Not a single one of the indicators above works well by themselves.
Independent expert interpretation of the results is necessary
Increasing Interest in Bibliometric Methods
• Countries with large research potential actively
pursue bibliometric indicators when evaluating
results of scientific activity
• These days whole teams of analytics operate in
may countries of the world. They prepare
bibliometric analyses.
• Practically in 100% cases the bibliometric analyses
is based on Thomson Reuters data.
Web of Science
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The world’s most used database for research evaluation
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CITATION INDEX
• Concept first developed by Dr Eugene Garfield
– Science, 1955
• The Science Citation Index (1963)
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SCI print (1960’s)
On-line with SciSearch in the 1970’s
CD-ROM in the 1980’s
Web interface (1997) Web of Science
• Content enhanced:
– Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
– Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
• The Citation Index
– Primarily developed for purposes of information retrieval
– Development of electronic media and powerful searching tools have
increased its use and popularity for purposes of Research Evaluation
USE OF WEB OF SCIENCE DATA IN
MAJOR RESEARCH EVALUATIONS
• World Academic Rankings:
 Times Higher Education Ranking
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
 ARWU (Shanghai) ranking www.arwu.org
• Major Country and EU–wide research evaluations:
US National Science Foundation
EU – Research Council
And many others
GOVERNMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS
USING TR DATA FOR EVALUATION
• France: Min. de la Recherche, OST - Paris, CNRS
• Germany: Max Planck Society, several gov’t labs, DKFZ, MDCUS:
National Institutes of Health
• United Kingdom: King’s College London; HEFCE
• European Union: EC’s DGXII(Research Directorate)
• US: NSF: biennial Science & Engineering Indicators report (since 1974)
• Canada: NSERC, FRSQ (Quebec), Alberta Research Council
• Australian Academy of Science, gov’t lab CSIRO
• Japan: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry
• People’s Republic of China: Chinese Academy of Science
• Czech Republic: Czech Academy of Sciences; Government
• Etc.
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ISI WEB OF SCIENCE GLOBAL REACH TODAY:
>6,000 CUSTOMERS IN 91 COUNTRIES
North 832+
America customers
Europe,
Middle 3,162+ Customers
East and In 51 countries
Africa
Latin
262+ Customers
America in 12 countries
AsiaPacific
680+ Customers
in 26 countries
ISI Web of Science
• 20 million individual users
• 150,000 users every day
• > 6,000 institutional users
• > 12,500 journals, > 47 million records, > 750 million cited references
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The Concept of Citation
Times
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References
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Records
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Web of Science® overview
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Multidisciplinary- Science, Social Science, Arts & Humanities
Largest citation index: >44 million records (1.9M in 2008)
More than 11,000 unique journal titles
More than 12,000 conferences covered annually
Data is updated weekly with short indexing lag
More than 100 years of uninterrupted coverage
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Century of Science
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Century of Social Sciences
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Science Citation Index
SSCI
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1975
A&HCI
1990
CPCI
Authority
Diversity
Evaluated authoritative content
– Team of specialists evaluate journals to ensure that the content
is trustworthy
– Third party evaluation of all journals regardless of source:
• Commercial publishers
• Academic societies
• Open Access journals
WHY BE SELECTIVE?
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40% of the journals:
% of database
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• 80% of the publications
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• 92% of cited papers
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4% of the journals:
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• 30% of the publications
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• 51% of cited papers
WEB OF SCIENCE
JOURNAL SELECTION POLICY
• Approx. 2000 journals evaluated annually
– 10-12% accepted
• Thomson Reuters editors
– Information professionals
– Librarians
– Experts in the literature of their subject area
Web of Science
Journals under evaluation
Journal ‘quality’
WHY EVALUATE JOURNALS?
Thomson Reuters’ editorial staff review
around 2,000 new journals annually.
10-12% of these journals are added
• Basic publishing standards
– Timeliness, Follows publishing conventions, Peer Review
– English language bibliographic information
• Editorial content, International Diversity
– Will it enrich the database? Is it a hot topic?
• Citation analysis
– Impact Factor, Immediacy index
– How the journal compares to other journals in its field
– Citation analysis of editorial board
• More information: science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl
Authority
JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS
AND IMPACT FACTOR
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JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS:
• A UNIQUE RESOURCE TOOL TO COMPARE
AND EVALUATE JOURNALS
– Coverage of the most influential science and social
sciences journals
– Develivers citation-based, objective evaluation through
quantifiable, statistical data
– Versatile data refinement, sorting and analysis tools
– Valuable metrics such as Impact Factor and
Eigenfactor™
• Full integration with ISI Web of KnowledgeSM data
and tools
WHY IS JCR USEFUL? WHO USES IT?
• You can:
– Measure research influence and impact at the journal and
category levels
– Support academic curriculum and your library’s collection
development
– Evaluate and document your institution’s research
investment
• Identify the most appropriate, influential journals in
which to publish
EFFICIENCY
JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR
All
Previous
Years
2006
2007
2008
Citations
Source paper – published in 2009
Cited reference – published in 2007 or 2008
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2010
2009 Impact
Factor
2009 JCR IMPACT FACTOR CALCULATION
2009 CITES TO 2008 + 2007 CONTENT
TOTAL # ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN 2008 + 2007
An Impact Factor IS: A journal level metric, normalizes
citation count by the amount of scholarly citable content
An Impact Factor is NOT: An article level metric. Individual
article citation counts vary greatly even within a single volume
and year.
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CALCULATING 2008 IMPACT FACTOR
PHYSICS-USPEKHI
Citations in 2008
To items published in 2007 = 110
To items published in 2006 =
Sum
189
= 299
299
= 2,471
Number of items
Published in 2007 =
59
Published in 2006 =
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Sum
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Journal Citation Reports
• Impact Factor – indicator
shown exclusively in Journal
Citation Reports
– Measure research influence and
impact at the journal and category
levels
– Support academic curriculum and
your library’s collection
development
– Evaluate and document your
institution’s research investment
• Identify the most appropriate,
influential journals in which to
publish
Category: Physics, applied
Research Evaluation based on Web of Science
Few Examples From Kyrgyzstan
RESEARCH EVALUATION
• Citation analysis based on world’s standard
• Although the main objective of the Web of Science
is intended to aid researchers to retrieve information, it is also
commonly used as a research evaluation tool:
– Count Papers  measure productivity
– Count Citations  measure utility and influence
• Based on the concept that if an article is cited it is an
influential paper, or has had an impact upon the research
community.
• This concept can be extended beyond individual articles and
used to evaluate:
– Authors
– Journals
– Topics
Counties and geographic regions
Institutions
HELPING BOOST VISIBILITY AND INFLUENCE
OF KYRGYZSTAN’S RESEARCH
Web of Science subscription helps increase the number of articles published
in world’s most influential journals
Analyses, comparisons and ranking of countries,
institutions, topics etc.
A SIMPLE ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH IN KYRGYZSTAN
DATA FROM 05/2012
More than 1,500 journal articles and conference proceedings
These works have been cited more than 5,000 times
Which Kyrgyzstan institutions have the highest
number of articles in the Web of Science?
Kyrgyzstan Academy of Sciences
Kyrgyzstan National University
Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University
Kyrgyz State Medical Academy
American University of Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan: In which subject areas most articles were
published? (top 10)
The most highly cited articles of Kyrgyzstan
researchers
Web of Science Record – Article Abstract
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